Name: ________________________
By S. E. Hinton
CHAPTER QUESTIONS
1.
Who is the narrator of the story?
Pony boy
2.
How does he feel about Soda?
He thinks soda is very handsome and ponyboy looks up to him
3.
What happens to him on the way home from the movies?
he gets jumped by the socs and gets held down on the ground
4.
What does Ponyboy say the difference between Darry and their father are?
his father was never rough without meaning to be and darry is rough without not meaning to
be
5.
What does Ponyboy think about Steve?
6.
Who is the "character" of the gang? Why?
two bits
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7.
What
does
Ponyboy
do
in
biology
class
that
surprises
people?
pulls his own knife out to use to dissect the worm
8.
What secret does Soda tell Ponyboy?
that he wants to marry sandy
9.
What do you think Soda meant when he told Ponyboy that Darry yells at him because he has
a lot of worries (p17)?
Because he worries about pony boy and doesn’t want him to get hurt in anyway
1.
Where are Johnny and Ponyboy when the chapter opens?
Dingoes drive in
2.
Why does Dally sneak in?
Because he wants to show that he doesn’t care about laws and if there is any he will break them
3.
Who are the two girls they meet there?
Sherri (cherry) , Marcia
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4.
Why
does
Dally
leave
and
go
somewhere
else?
Because johnny told him off and johnny never says boo, nobody in the gang could hurt
johnny he was like their pet
5.
Who gets Dally to stop bothering the girls? Why is this surprising?
Johnny gets dally to stop bothering them, it was suprising because johnny is the quiet one
6.
Why does Two-Bit tell them that Tim Shepard is looking for Dally?
Because dally slashed tim shepards tyres
7.
Why do people turn and look as Ponyboy and Cherry go for refreshments?
Because ponyboy is a greaser and cherry is a socs
8.
Who are the people that beat up Johnny (hint: a gang and someone else)?
____socs and bob
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9.
If someone tries to beat up Johnny again, what will he do?
Johnny will probably kill them
10. After Ponyboy tells Cherry the story about Johnny, what does she say (p34)? Do you think
that's true?
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1.
What seems funny to Ponyboy as they walk to get the car?
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2.
What does Cherry see as the differences between the two gangs? Be sure to fill in your gang
chart.
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3.
Who is Mickey Mouse?
sodas horse
What does Soda do when Mickey Mouse dies?
________cried for days ______________________________________________________
4.
What do Ponyboy and Cherry both like?
_sunsets _______________________________________________________________________________
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5.
What mean thing does Ponyboy say to Johnny? Why?
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6.
Why does Johnny get nervous when Bob drives up in his blue Mustang?
___because he beat up Johnny last time
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7.
Who does Cherry confess she could fall in love with? Why?
Dally
8.
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What does Darry do when Ponyboy comes home late?
___yells at him
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9.
Why do you think Johnny says the gang isn't the same as having your own folks care?
__________because the gang is a bunch of friends , he doesn’t have actual family that cares
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1.
How many Socs are in the park? What condition are they in?
5 socs and they were all drunk
2.
What
does
Bob
do
to
Ponyboy?
hes starts drowning him in the fountain
3.
What
does
Johnny
do
to
help
Ponyboy
kills one of the socs
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4.
Who do Johnny and Ponyboy go to for help? Why? What does he give them?
they go to dally for his help, because he can get them a gun, money and a plan
5.
Where do Ponyboy and Johnny go to hide out? How do they get there? Do you think this is a
good hideout? Why or why not?
They go to an abandoned church, the get there by train and then walk
6.
What happened the last time that Ponyboy and Johnny went to church?
All their friends were mucking around and throwing paper at each other
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1.
What does Ponyboy say you do "when you haven't got anything to do" (p69)? What does he
mean?
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2.
Who does Johnny say Ponyboy acts like? Why?
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3.
Why does Johnny cut Ponyboy' s hair? Why is this hard for Ponyboy?
So they don’t recognise them and because his hair is his pride
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4.
What book do they read together?
______gone with the wind
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5.
What do Johnny and Ponyboy swear they won't do anymore before they fall asleep?
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6.
Why does Johnny think Dally is a hero? Do you agree with him?
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7.
What do you think the poem on p77 means?
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8.
Who comes to visit them?
Dally ________________________________________________________________________________
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9.
What does Dally tell them is happening back in town?
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10. Who is acting as a spy for the Greasers? Why do you think this person is spying?
_________cherry is and because she wants to help out the greasers
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1.
Do you think the whole mess is Cherry's fault?
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2.
What does Johnny announce they are going to do? Why?
____turn themselves in And say it was self defence
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3.
Why doesn't Dally want Johnny to turn himself in?
Because he will go to Jail and he doesn’t want him to go because when he was in there it changed him
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4.
What happens to the church?
_____it catches fire, and there are kids in the building
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5.
How does Ponyboy describe Johnny as the two of them are inside the church (p92)? Why do
you think Johnny is like that?
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6.
What does Darry do when he sees Ponyboy in the hospital?
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7.
What does Ponyboy finally realize about Dairy?
______that he does care about him
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8.
What is Dairy's silent fear?
__that he doesn’t want to lose anyone else, he doesn’t want pony to get hurt or anything to happen to
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1.
Why were reporters interested in what happened to Ponyboy and Johnny?
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2.
What was Johnny' s physical condition after the fire?
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3.
What do the Curtis brothers like to eat for breakfast?
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4.
What information did Ponyboy learn from the newspaper about him and his brothers?
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5.
What sport is Ponyboy good at?
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__running (track)
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6.
Why did Randy want to talk to Ponyboy?
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7.
Why didn't Randy want to fight in the rumble?
___he was sick of fighting
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8.
According to Randy, what should Bob's parents have done differently? Why do you think this
bothered Bob so much about his parents?
_given him discipline
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9.
What does Ponyboy finally understand after talking with Randy? (find the quote)
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1. What two things does Johnny ask Two-Bit and Ponyboy for when he is in the hospital?
_grease, and gone with the wind book
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2. What does Johnny tell Ponyboy when they are alone in the hospital room?
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3. Who else comes to visit Johnny? Why doesn't he want to see her? Do you agree with his
decision?
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His mother because she doesn’t care about him
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4. What does Two-Bit give to Dally?
___his switch blade
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5. Why won't Cherry visit Johnny in the hospital?
___because he killed bob __________
6. What did Cherry love about Bob?
__he was a sweet heart and was really nice
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7. Why do you think Ponyboy asks Cherry about sunsets?
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1. Why do the Greasers get dressed up for the rumble?
so they can look good aswell for the rumble because the socs always look good.
2. What two things do Greasers have according to Ponyboy?
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3. What are Darry, Soda, Steve, and Two-Bit's reasons for fighting?
__________because they love to stomp people, to show off their muscles, hatred
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4. How do the boys describe Greasers?
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5. How do the Socs look? What does Ponyboy say is important about looks?
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6. Why was Darry angry at Paul?
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7. How is Dally able to join the rumble?
_because he persuaded the nurse
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8. What does Dally tell the police when he is stopped?
That Ponyboy boy was in a motorcycling accident and he was rushing to take him to hospital
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9. What are the last two things Johnny says? What do you think he means?
__keep gold Ponyboy keep gold
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1. What does the man who picks up Ponyboy notice about him?
___________that he had blood all over him
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2. Who calls the house? Why?
____dally because he robbed the grocery store and needs them to meet him at the parking lot to hide
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3. What happens to Dally? Why?
________he gets shot because he had a rifle but the cops didn’t know it wasn’t loaded and he had it
pointed at them ________________________________________________________________________
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4. Do you think Ponyboy was right and that was what Dally wanted? Why?
___yes because it seemed like he couldn’t deal with the loss of johnny
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5. What does Ponyboy think is different about what happened to Dally and Johnny?
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__because johnny didn’t want to die and the last thing he did was something heroic and dally wanted
to die and the last thing he did was rob a grocery store
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6. How long has Ponyboy been asleep?
__Saturday til Tuesday
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7. What is Ponyboy worried that he did when he was sick? Why?
____not ask for darry as much as sodapop
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8. What did Johnny leave for Ponyboy?
_______the book gone with the wind
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1. Whose picture does Ponyboy come across in Soda's yearbook?
____bob the one Johnny killed
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2. What does Ponyboy begin to think about when he sees this picture?
___everything about him e.g. if he had any brothers that looked up to him, if his parents hated them
for killing him
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3. Ponyboy says he would rather have ‘hatred’ than ‘what’? Why do you think he says this?
__pity______________________________________________________________________________
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4. Who comes to visit Ponyboy? Why do you think he is there?
_____randy, to see how he is
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5. Why doesn't Ponyboy like people to come to his house?
Because their street and house is like a slum
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6. What lies does Ponyboy say to Randy? Why do you think he does this?
That johnny isn’t dead because he doesn’t want to believe it
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7. What does Darry call Ponyboy? Why does Ponyboy like this?
Little buddy because he only calls soda pop that
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1. Who was at the hearing?
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2. What does the judge ask Ponyboy?
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3. Why do you think Ponyboy' s life is so mixed up after the hearing?
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4. What deal does Ponyboy's teacher make? Why?
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5. What does Ponyboy do when he sees the Socs?
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6. What does Ponyboy think is good about being tough? Do you agree?
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7. What does Darry tell Ponyboy that upsets him?
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8. Why does Soda get so upset?
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9. What does Ponyboy realize about the lies he's been telling?
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10. What does Johnny want Ponyboy to tell Dally? Why?
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11. What does Ponyboy decide to write about for his English assignment?
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